Dear Raman ji, It is not only that the description of a plant that we need, but more importantly, supportive information such as;
Place where you seen the plant Habitat of the place Habit (tree, shrub, herb or climber) size of the plant and plant part (approximately) was the flower in bunch/cluster (inflorescence) or single or few, color of the flower (as some camera gives a different color composition) then any notable characters. You may please refer posts with these detailed descriptions. Supportive information are always help in easy and correct id. It is not necessary that the description should be in botanical terms. You may please give us an idea by saying egg shape/round/round with tapering end/s or globe shape or whatever be possible for you. I appreciate the fact that your pictures are very clear and you always try to cover most of the characters with shots from different angle that eases things quite a lot. Mostly you get common or known plants from Bangalore. But, if you happen to go to Coorg or similar places and get some pictures from the wild which are not familiar to the experts, then the experts surely need to get the information with which they go and refer flora and other available literature to get it idied. In such instances I request you to kindly carry a field note book to take notes of at least characters that are mentioned in our format. Thanks and Regards Giby On 26 January 2012 13:16, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > Tanay ji, > > I assume you are referring to the textual description of the plant. > > I generally put the complete set possible. Sometime a flower or fruit may > be missing as I keep waiting for it. > I feel that the pictures correctly describe and I can introduce only wrong > information by describing it. > > I can never say a leaf is oval, ovate or obovate most of the time. > It is also very difficult to describe the color. > > With my lack of Botany knowledge, I cut and paste information from wiki, > flowerofindia.in or other sites. > I really don't like to describe it as and when I read about it later it is > completely different. > > Raman > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
